Extending Droids

[Richard Frovarp <rf...@apache.org>]

I'm looking to extend Droids. I'm guessing that what I'm going to do 
will be beneficial to other users. Would you prefer that I enhance the 
capabilities of existing objects, or should I create new objects with 
the enhanced capabilities? I need more capability with respect to 
returned data from the HTTP sessions, and I need the ability to inject 
URIs to ignore dynamically at run time. I can either add functionality 
to RegexURLFilter or create a ModifiableRegexURLFilter. I can add 
functionality to the existing HTTP components, or create Advanced*HTTP* 
style objects.

I plan to submit patches as I go, I just want to make sure that it is 
compatible with the project's desires.

Richard

Re: Extending Droids

[Richard Frovarp <rf...@apache.org>]

Okay. Some of the stuff I'm adding is pretty basic and perhaps just 
finishing off the capabilities already inherent. Other places I'm adding 
new functionality. If the devs want a change to what I'm putting up, 
just let me know and I can easily break it out or collapse it in.

Richard

Tony Dietrich wrote:
> My vote would be to work toward providing extended objects.
>
> Always better to add functionality by sub-classing, rather than making
> existing code more complex.
> Those that don't need the functionality you intend to develop don't need to
> bother with it then.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Frovarp [mailto:rfrovarp@apache.org] 
> Sent: 11 February 2010 17:17
> To: droids-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Extending Droids
>
> I'm looking to extend Droids. I'm guessing that what I'm going to do 
> will be beneficial to other users. Would you prefer that I enhance the 
> capabilities of existing objects, or should I create new objects with 
> the enhanced capabilities? I need more capability with respect to 
> returned data from the HTTP sessions, and I need the ability to inject 
> URIs to ignore dynamically at run time. I can either add functionality 
> to RegexURLFilter or create a ModifiableRegexURLFilter. I can add 
> functionality to the existing HTTP components, or create Advanced*HTTP* 
> style objects.
>
> I plan to submit patches as I go, I just want to make sure that it is 
> compatible with the project's desires.
>
> Richard
>
>   

RE: Extending Droids

[Tony Dietrich <to...@dietrich.org.uk>]

My vote would be to work toward providing extended objects.

Always better to add functionality by sub-classing, rather than making
existing code more complex.
Those that don't need the functionality you intend to develop don't need to
bother with it then.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Frovarp [mailto:rfrovarp@apache.org] 
Sent: 11 February 2010 17:17
To: droids-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Extending Droids

I'm looking to extend Droids. I'm guessing that what I'm going to do 
will be beneficial to other users. Would you prefer that I enhance the 
capabilities of existing objects, or should I create new objects with 
the enhanced capabilities? I need more capability with respect to 
returned data from the HTTP sessions, and I need the ability to inject 
URIs to ignore dynamically at run time. I can either add functionality 
to RegexURLFilter or create a ModifiableRegexURLFilter. I can add 
functionality to the existing HTTP components, or create Advanced*HTTP* 
style objects.

I plan to submit patches as I go, I just want to make sure that it is 
compatible with the project's desires.

Richard